Dave Burge (AKA Iowahawk, http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/07/questions-so-many-questions.html) submitted the following questions to Obama for his Twitter town hall. I wonder what the reactions were among Obama's staff. Funny stuff.

President Obama graciously offered to take questions submitted via Twitter today, courtesy the #AskObama hashtag. Being an inquisitive sort, I decided to submit a few that have been nagging me (I am on Twitter, by the way). Although he declined to answer any, I thought I'd warehouse them here in case he ever gets around to them:

An $8 billion high speed train leaves Chicago for Iowa City at 8:15am at 40mph. Why?